Very interesting article. > Essentialism rears its ugly head in racial terminology. The majority of "African Americans" are of mixed race. Yet so entrenched is

Very interesting article. > Essentialism rears its ugly head in racial terminology. The majority of "African Americans" are of mixed race. Yet so entrenched is our essentialist mind-set, American official forms require everyone to tick one race/ethnicity box or another: no room for intermediates. I thought about this as well some time ago. It's odd that the child of a black and a white parent is black, and not "neither black nor white" or "both black and white".